Screen LibraryTales from nowhere : unexpected stories from unexpected places /
"Many places can feel like nowhere: a desert, an isolated village, even the middle of a bustling, impersonal city. And then something happens: an adventure, a revelation, an experience that changes the whole landscape. The discovery that every place is the centre of the world to somebody and ha...
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Lonely Planet Global Limited,
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| Publisher Address: | Carlton, Victoria : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"Many places can feel like nowhere: a desert, an isolated village, even the middle of a bustling, impersonal city. And then something happens: an adventure, a revelation, an experience that changes the whole landscape. The discovery that every place is the centre of the world to somebody and has its own riches and wonders. The authors of these 30 real-life tales find passion, surprise and illumination in the middle of Borneo or Beijing, in a Mayan mountain village, along a timeworn trail in Tuscany, on an isolated South Pacific island, or under a desert moon in Mali. These richly varied stor |
| Item Description: | "Includes original stories by: Anthony Sattin, Danny Wallace, Jason Elliot, Pam Houston, Ralph Potts, and Pico Iyer"-- cover. |
| Carrier Form: | 254 pages ; 20 cm |
| ISBN: |
9781786576217 178657621X |
| Index Number: | G465 |
| CLC: | K919.2 |
| Call Number: | K919.2/T143 |
| Contents: |
Nowhere, everywhere / The road to Flowbee / Meeting Echo / Timbuktu & beyond / North of Perth / The finest cake in Sri Lanka / Grounded in In Binh / Chitimba / The Coptic priest / Secrets of the Maya / Lost in Beijing / Crossing over / In the wake of the albatross / The end of the road / Postcard from the edge / Into the darkne |